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Piece sets

Playing chess in the club continues via email.

Some of the players in the club uses the graphical format below to receive their opponents' moves. Others use plain text messages, others use PGN.

This page is for those who use the html message format, instead of plain text and PGN. (These settings can be changed anytime by the players). For players using the html format, the server generates the changed game diagram after each move in html format.
Using an html compliant email client or web service is necessary to use this feature. All the modern email clients support displaying standard html messages. Players who use an email client that doesn't support html message format won't be able to use this feature. They receive their opponents' moves, or whole games in plain text or in PGN format instead of the graphical boards. They may need a different software to display the boards. For example ECTool is a right software for them.

Players can choose which piece set they want to use in their graphical boards generated by the chess server.

Piece set #1:

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H

Piece set #2 (thanks to Gergo Macsi, mgrg@freemail.hu):

Piece set #3 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #4 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #5 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #6 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #7 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #8 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #9 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #10 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #11 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #12 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #13 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #14 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #15 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #16 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #17 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #18 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #19 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #20 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #21 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #22 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #23 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #99 (also by Gergo Macsi):

More piece sets may come in the future.

Scoring

In competitive chess, a player scores one point for a win, a half-point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. So the rankings at the end of a tournament are easy to calculate by simple addition.

In the early 19th century, when modern competitive play began, draws were ignored, and a match was won by the player who first scored an agreed number of wins, or who had the most wins after an agreed number of games. With the advent of all-play-all tournaments (the first international all-play-all was held in London in 1851) draws became more important. At first, rules were devised to discourage draws, which were very unpopular with the chess public, but gradually these were dropped and draws were counted as a half-point.

PGN Format

The PGN format is a standard way to describe a chess game.
It contains players' data such as names, ratings, country codes, the date, and site of the game, and contains the moves also that have been taken in the game, and the result of the game also.
The game can be in progress too, in this case its result is "*", later it usually changes to "1-0", "0-1" or "1/2-1/2".
Please find the detailed description of the PGN format here.
The server understands the PGN format, it can send and receive moves in this format.

Many softwares use this format to exchange games, those too which are used by correspondence chess players to play their games, such as ECTool, or Mailchess (more on the Links page).

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